Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump’s Travel Ban

The ruling was made in the United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, dealing yet another blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict travel and immigration from Muslim-majority countries.

by Sahara Reporters, New YorkJun 12, 2017

A second federal appeals court ruled against U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Monday, the New York Times reports.

The ruling was made in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, dealing yet another blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict travel and immigration from Muslim-majority countries. On May 25, a similar decision was handed down by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Virginia.

Monday’s ruling affirmed the Federal District Court in Hawaii’s March ruling, in which Judge Derrick K. Watson ruled that Mr. Trump’s revised executive order on immigration and travel violated the Constitution. The judge argued that the order targeted Muslims and therefore contravened the Constitution’s ban on a government establishment of religion.

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